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Single-player games like Forsaken: Year One

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Forsaken: Year One, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.

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Ranked picks

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    After the Collapse — Steam game cover

    After the Collapse

    Single-player alternative to Forsaken: Year One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — Steam game cover

    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    Single-player alternative to Forsaken: Year One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville — Steam game cover

    Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville

    Single-player alternative to Forsaken: Year One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Going Medieval — Steam game cover

    Going Medieval

    Single-player alternative to Forsaken: Year One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dark Moon — Steam game cover

    Dark Moon

    Single-player alternative to Forsaken: Year One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dream Engines: Nomad Cities — Steam game cover

    Dream Engines: Nomad Cities

    Single-player alternative to Forsaken: Year One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kenshi — Steam game cover

    Kenshi

    Single-player alternative to Forsaken: Year One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    After Long Night — Steam game cover

    After Long Night

    Single-player alternative to Forsaken: Year One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crazy Wheels — Steam game cover

    Crazy Wheels

    Single-player alternative to Forsaken: Year One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    The floor is lava! Relive your childhood dream-races around the house with Crazy Wheels, a fast-paced, action-packed arcade racing game.

    2022IndieRacing14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →